{"title":"Puccini: A Biography","authors":"R. Baxter","doi":"10.1093/oq/kbg096a","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Any scholar writing the biography of an opera composer must choose between emphasizing the life and stressing the music. Two Puccini biographers have solved that dilemma in disparate ways. Mary Jane Phillips-Matz focuses on Puccini the man. Julian Budden tries to strike a balance between the life and the works but ends up devoting more than half of his book to an analysis of Puccini’s operas. Despite their diVering approaches, Phillips-Matz and Budden, taken together, present a fuller and more rounded portrait of Giacomo Puccini than previous writers. Both Phillips-Matz and Budden bring to Puccini methods forged in their prior studies of Giuseppe Verdi. In Verdi: A Biography,1 Phillips-Matz showed herself to be a biographical sleuth, as adept at poring through parish registers and municipal archives as she was skilled at culling important facts from forgotten letters and faded newspapers. During decades of research for Puccini: A Biography, Phillips-Matz explored the byways of the composer’s beloved Tuscany and visited the cities, towns, and villages that shaped his personality. She interviewed Puccini’s relatives—chief among them, the composer’s step-","PeriodicalId":42382,"journal":{"name":"OPERA QUARTERLY","volume":"19 1","pages":"785-790"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/oq/kbg096a","citationCount":"12","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"OPERA QUARTERLY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oq/kbg096a","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MUSIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 12
Abstract
Any scholar writing the biography of an opera composer must choose between emphasizing the life and stressing the music. Two Puccini biographers have solved that dilemma in disparate ways. Mary Jane Phillips-Matz focuses on Puccini the man. Julian Budden tries to strike a balance between the life and the works but ends up devoting more than half of his book to an analysis of Puccini’s operas. Despite their diVering approaches, Phillips-Matz and Budden, taken together, present a fuller and more rounded portrait of Giacomo Puccini than previous writers. Both Phillips-Matz and Budden bring to Puccini methods forged in their prior studies of Giuseppe Verdi. In Verdi: A Biography,1 Phillips-Matz showed herself to be a biographical sleuth, as adept at poring through parish registers and municipal archives as she was skilled at culling important facts from forgotten letters and faded newspapers. During decades of research for Puccini: A Biography, Phillips-Matz explored the byways of the composer’s beloved Tuscany and visited the cities, towns, and villages that shaped his personality. She interviewed Puccini’s relatives—chief among them, the composer’s step-
期刊介绍：
Since its inception in 1983, The Opera Quarterly has earned the enthusiastic praise of opera lovers and scholars alike for its engagement within the field of opera studies. In 2005, David J. Levin, a dramaturg at various opera houses and critical theorist at the University of Chicago, assumed the executive editorship of The Opera Quarterly, with the goal of extending the journal"s reputation as a rigorous forum for all aspects of opera and operatic production. Under his stewardship, the journal is resituated squarely at the intersection of performance, theory, and history, with a purview encompassing contemporary developments on the stage and in the academy.
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
分享
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：
扫码关注我们
